“5-Track was born in a fiery explosion in the basement of a church in a small town in Vermont. The explosion was caused when two unnamed individuals (Burl & Heck) rigged up a snowmobile battery to a reel-to-reel tape deck threaded with a 70s mixtape of Naropa College student recordings & Jimi Hendrix apartment jams. That’s what happens when Earth fucks with Space.

“5-Track spent the early 2000s in Seattle, WA, flying with the dolphins from ferry to ferry across Puget Sound, in which celebrated airspace he captured seabirds & turned them into rocknroll songs.

“From 2008 until 2014 he hid out in Echo Park, Los Angeles, singing to trees & throwing records out the window while removing layers of clothing. In 2013 he absconded to Vermont for a secret marriage in an undisclosed location with the stars in the sign of the eye of the tiger.

“Back in Seattle since late 2014, 5-Track plays in many raucous bands, records music to sleep to, & is at work on a suite for guitar (in the cosmic primitive style) entitled ‘Birch Burrs & Heckfire’.”

~ bio contributed with great appreciation by john 5 philpin

“5-Track warbles sweeter than lost’n’lonely Neil Young during ON THE BEACH, almost as self-satirizing as the very Reverend Roky Erickson and ... appears intent on insinuating himself into our consciousnesses as a 21st century artist of the United States’ next phase...”~ Julian Cope

"Unabashedly Hendrix-inspired guitar parts... the kind of pre-country-rock-based hippie jams that inspired all the bands that the bands we listen to now listened to when they formed their bands... Not since Marc Bolan has a flower child of this magnitude said, ‘Fuck it, I’m going to take the shimmering diamond tears from beneath the eye of a unicorn and rip a hole in your ASS with it!' " ~ D. M. Collins, L. A. Record

"There should be an illustration of 5-Track next to the word 'guitarist’ in the dictionary! His luscious bush of hair, his chillaxed grin, his gnarly licks, and his all around good vibes makes him an absolute pleasure to listen to and watch."~ Drew Denny, L. A. Record

"It's like he's feeding you his brain waves through his fingers."~ anonymous Seattleite

5-Track's most recent music is to sleep to, & is called "slearp". Prior to that, in 2014, he released a collection of homemade experiments in obsessive overdubbery, forged in the unreasonable heat of Los Angeles late summer, called "Electrostagmalites & Leafy Transmissions".

In 2014 The Walking Faces toured their winding way from Los Angeles to Austin, playing dates in Phoenix, Santa Fe, Amarillo, Marfa, Austin, and also the inaugural Spring Hollow Concert Series on a beautiful piece of land outside of Austin. SHCS took place in a yurt beside a deep and swimmable creek and included music from The Dial Tones, Julia Lucille, Teddy Long & Catholic Guilt, Nick Drozdowicz and others. Shortly after those dates, The Walking Faces made their way to Sacramento and Berkeley, CA. Many of those shows may be heard as mp3s at archive.org :: The Walking Faces